Web Hosting - Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
This Acceptable Use Policy (the "Agreement") sets forth the terms and conditions of Your Use of hosting and related services ("Services"). In this Agreement "You" and "Your" refer to You, as the user of Our Services, or any agent, employee, servant or person authorized to act on Your behalf. "We", "us" and "our" refer to Namecheap, Inc., as well as its subsidiaries and sister companies (“Namecheap”). This Agreement explains Our obligations to You, and explains Your obligations to Us for various services offered by Namecheap. When You Use Your account or permit someone else to Use it to purchase or otherwise acquire access to additional Namecheap service(s) or products or to cancel Your Namecheap service(s) (even if We were not notified of such authorization), this Agreement covers such service or actions. Namecheap’s Terms of Service agreement (“TOS”) is incorporated herein by reference and is applicable to all Services under this Accepted Use Policy.
1. Sharing of Information.
As a condition of purchasing and using hosting plans, You acknowledge and agree that Namecheap may provide Your personal information to their partners, as necessary to provide You with the selected products and services. The provided information falls into the following categories: (a) Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions made by You in order to receive Our electronic newsletter & marketing communication, and (b) Information Namecheap gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout Our sites. This information allows Us to better tailor Our content to users' needs and to help Our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of Our audience. Because Namecheap derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping Our select services free to users. Under no circumstances does Namecheap divulge any information about an individual user to a third party. Further information regarding the nature of information shared by Namecheap can be obtained by reviewing the Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree that Your name and justification may be disclosed to certain registries, including, but not limited to, the American Registry of Internet Numbers, in accordance with policies promulgated by any and all such registries and such information may be displayed via Whois.
2. User Obligations.
You represent and warrant to Namecheap that: Your content does not and shall not contain any content, materials, data, work, trade or service mark, trade name, link, advertising or services that actually or potentially violate any applicable law or regulation or infringe or misappropriate any proprietary, intellectual property, contract or tort right of any person and that You own Your account content and all proprietary or intellectual property rights therein, or have express written authorization from the owner to copy, use and display the content on and within Your server account. You also represent and warrant that the server content being hosted by Namecheap shall not be used in connection with any illegal activity.
You expressly (i) grant to Namecheap permission to cache the entirety of the content that is submitted, stored, distributed or disseminated by you via the Services and your website, including content supplied by third parties, hosted by Namecheap under this agreement; and (ii) agree that such caching is not an infringement on any of your intellectual property rights or any third party’s intellectual property rights.
3. Network Interruptions.
Namecheap will use its best efforts to maintain a full time Internet presence for Your account. You hereby acknowledge that the network may, at various time intervals, be down due, but not restricted to, utility interruption, equipment failure, natural disaster, acts of God, or human error. In no event shall Namecheap be liable to You for any damages resulting from or related to any failure or delay of Namecheap in providing access to the Internet under this Agreement. In no event shall Namecheap be liable to You for any indirect, special or consequential damages or lost profits arising out of or related to this Agreement or the performance or breach thereof. The aggregate, total liability of Namecheap under this Agreement, if any, shall in no event or circumstance exceed the total amount actually paid by the Account Holder hereunder. The terms of this Section will survive the termination of this Agreement.
4. Accounts.
This Agreement applies to all accounts, sub-accounts, and alternative account names associated with Your principal account. You are responsible for the use of each account, whether used under any name or by any person, and for ensuring full compliance with this Agreement by all users of that account. A Namecheap account may not be transferred without prior written approval from Namecheap.
5. IP Address.
Namecheap assigns to You an Internet Protocol ("IP") address in connection with Your use of the Namecheap services. The right to use that IP address will remain with and belong only to Namecheap, and You will have no right to use that IP address except as allowed by Namecheap in its sole and absolute discretion.
6. Payment Terms:
- You may receive a refund if: i) Your Stellar, Stellar Plus, Stellar Business, Nebula, Galaxy Expert, Universe Pro VPS Pulsar, VPS Quasar, or VPS Magnetar account is cancelled within the initial 30 days after sign-up. Only first-time Stellar, Stellar Plus, Stellar Business, Nebula, Galaxy Expert, Universe Pro VPS Pulsar, VPS Quasar, or VPS Magnetar accounts are eligible for the 30-day money-back guarantee. If the account holder cancels after the time period specified, there will be no refund given. Refunds do NOT apply to any third party product (WHMCS, cPanel, Softaculous, etc.) that is not included into the package and is purchased at additional fee; (ii) Your Dedicated Clearance Server or Dedicated New Server account is cancelled within the initial 7 days after sign-up. Only first-time Dedicated Server accounts are eligible for the 7-day money-back guarantee.
- Namecheap may temporarily deny service or terminate this Agreement upon Your failure to pay charges when they become due. Such termination or denial will not relieve You of responsibility for the payment of all accrued charges, plus reasonable interest and any collection fees.
- If Your account becomes overdue, the account will be suspended. And it won’t be reactivated until the outstanding balance is paid in full. In the event that any amount due Namecheap remains unpaid on the date when services expire, Namecheap may immediately terminate this agreement, and/or withhold Services for non-payment. At its sole discretion, Namecheap may, but is not obligated to, provide a period within thirty(30) days after Your hosting account's billing date for Reseller hosting accounts and within seven (7) days for VPS and Shared package, and three (3) days for dedicated servers to reactivate the service.
- If an account is found to be in violation of the Terms of Service, it will be terminated immediately and all payments forfeited.
- For closed accounts there is a $15.00 per incident charge for all inquiries regarding previous services and or support.
- Backups of new/changed data are made weekly for shared and reseller servers. No guarantees are made of any kind, either expressed or implied, as to the integrity of these backups. For Stellar Plans, internal backups are performed twice a week. For Stellar Plus and Business Plans (previously Ultimate and Business SSD Plans), the free AutoBackup tool via cPanel automatically backs up your website data with access to daily, weekly and monthly backups. If loss of data occurs due to an error of Namecheap, We will attempt to recover the data for no charge to the client. If data loss occurs due to negligence of a client in securing their account or by an action of the client, Namecheap will attempt to recover the data from the most recent archive for a $15.00.
- Dedicated Server Subscription is to be renewed via automatic renewal option with a designated credit card, PayPayl or Namecheap funds. Automatic renewal option must be enabled prior to the renewal date. In the event the auto-renew option is disabled, the Subscription will be cancelled on the renewal date and Your server content will be permanently deleted. In the event the auto-renew option is enabled, but 3 attempts to automatically renew Your Subscription failed, the Dedicated Server Subscription will be suspended and the email notification will be sent to You accordingly. Namecheap will try to charge Your credit card/PayPal or Namecheap funds for an additional 4 days after the billing date, once a day. After five consecutive failed attempts to renew the Dedicated Server Subscription, the server will be canceled and Your server content will be permanently deleted. In the event You order any additional services or licensees to Dedicated Server Subscription, Your designated Credit Card/PayPal/Namecheap funds will be charged for the prorated amount for the current billing period.
7. Secure Shell ("SSH") Access.
You may enable SSH access in Your account, or by contacting our Support team. Upon completion of said terms You will be granted Jail access to the system on a provisionary basis any misuse of the system will result in access being revoked. The use of php or any other means to circumvent this policy will result in immediate account termination.
8. Prohibited Activities.
By using any Services, provided by Namecheap You agree:
- not to violate the laws, regulations, ordinances or other such requirements of any applicable Federal, State or local government.
- not to transmit any unsolicited commercial or bulk email, not to be engaged in any activity known or considered to be spamming or Mail Bombing.
- not to make any illegal communication to any Newsgroup, Mailing List, Chat Facility, or another Internet Forum.
- not to make, attempt or allow any unauthorized access to Namecheap website, servers, your own hosting account or the account of any other customers of Namecheap.
- not to allow any remote code execution of malicious software through the hosting account provided by Namecheap.
- not to cause denial of service attacks, port scans or other endangering and invasive procedures against Namecheap servers and facilities or the servers and facilities of other network hosts or Internet users.
- not to forge the signature or other identifying mark or code of any other person or engage in any activity to attempt to deceive other persons regarding the true identity of the User.
- not to use Namecheap services to host any website, other content, links or advertisements of websites that: infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party information; contain nudity, pornography or other content deemed adult related; profess hatred for particular social, ethnical, religious or other group; contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of a computer or a person's property; contain warez; contain any kind of proxy server or other traffic relaying programs; promote money making schemes, multi-level marketing or similar activities; contain lottery, gambling, casino; contain torrent trackers, torrent Portals or similar software; violent or encouraging violence.
- not to upload unacceptable material which includes: IRC bots, warez, image, file storage, mirror, or banner-ad services, topsites, streaming, Escrow, High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or related sites, investment sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, etc), cryptocurrency miners, sale of any controlled substances without providing proof of appropriate permit(s) in advance, AutoSurf sites, Bank Debentures, Bank Debenture Trading Programs, Prime Banks Programs, lottery sites, muds / rpg's, hate sites, hacking focused sites/archives/programs, or sites promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners, Brute Force Programs, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts.
- not to engage in or to instigate actions that cause harm to Namecheap or other customers. Such actions include, but are not limited to, actions resulting in blacklisting any of Our IPs by the any online spam database, actions resulting in DDOS attacks for any servers, etc. Namecheap reserves the right to refuse service to anyone upon Our discretion. Any material that in Namecheap judgment, is either obscene or threatening is strictly prohibited and will be removed from Namecheap servers immediately with or without prior notice and may lead to possible warning, suspension or immediate account termination with no refund. You agree that We have the sole right to decide what constitutes a violation of the acceptable policy use described above as well as what is the appropriate severity of any corrective action to be applied. In the event that a violation of Our Acceptable Use Policy is found, Namecheap will take corrective action upon our own discretion and will notify You. Namecheap decision in such case is binding and final, and cannot be a subject of a further change. Namecheap cannot and shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from Our measures against actions causing harm to Namecheap or any other third party. We have the right to terminate each and any hosting account that has been suspended for any reason for more than 14 calendar days after the suspension date, unless You has taken corrective measures to remove the initial suspension threat or violation. Any backup copies of the hosting account will be permanently deleted upon termination and no refund will be due. Namecheap will not be liable for any loss or damages in such cases.
- not to violate the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 or similar legislation, or promote, encourage or engage in the sale or distribution of prescription medication without a valid prescription.
At its discretion, Namecheap reserves the right to investigate the use of its services for violations of its policies. This includes all hosting packages and services. Namecheap further reserves the right to remove any content we determine to be prohibited by this agreement or our Terms and Conditions. No backups will be kept of removed content.
9. Email and Anti-spam Policy.
You must comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all relevant regulations and legislation on bulk and commercial email. You are prohibited from sending mass unsolicited email messages. All emails sent to recipients who have not Confirmed Opt-In or Closed-Loop Opt-In in to mailings from You will be considered as unsolicited email messages. You using and sending mass mailings must at all times maintain complete and accurate records of all consents and opt-ins and upon request provide said records to Namecheap. In the event that You cannot provide actual and verifiable proof of such consents and opt-ins, We will consider the mass mailing to be unsolicited.
To protect system-wide deliverability and the reputation of Namecheap’s sending infrastructure, domain warm-up activities are permitted only when conducted responsibly and in limited volumes. Domain warm-up is allowed only under controlled conditions involving legitimate communications with verified or opt-in recipients. Automated or bulk warm-up through third-party tools, simulated engagement networks, or unverified mailing lists is strictly prohibited.
Warm-up activity must not resemble bulk marketing or spam-like behavior. All messages must contain genuine, non-deceptive content and comply with applicable anti-spam laws and this Acceptable Use Policy. Namecheap may monitor delivery patterns and complaint rates and, at its sole discretion, apply additional limits, suspend sending privileges, or terminate the account where warm-up or other high-volume activity degrades performance, reputation, or compliance.
Namecheap prohibits the following activities listed without limitation hereunder:
- Usage of the Namecheap network and systems to receive replies to unsolicited mass e-mail messages.
- Forgery of e-mail headers (i.e."spoofing").
- Spamming using third-party proxy, aggregation of proxy lists, or proxy mailing software installation.
- Configuring a mail server to accept and process third-party emails for sending with no user identification and/or authentication.
- Hosting web pages advertised via "spam e-mail" sent from another network ("spamvertising").
- Hosting any web pages or providing any services that support spam.
- Using weblog posts, IRC/chat room messages, guestbook entries, HTTP referrer log entries, usenet posts, pop-ups, instant messages or text/SMS messages for sending, posting or transmitting unsolicited bulk messages.
- Advocating any activities, prohibited by the Acceptable Use Section of this Agreement.
- If we determine that you have deliberately or recklessly used our hosting services for the sending of SPAM e-mail messages, we reserve the right to assess a $500 charge upon your account, which shall serve to compensate us for increased administration costs and expenses of redressing SPAM-related activity. You agree that in the event we determine that you have deliberately or recklessly engaged in SPAM activity, we may assess the fee entirely at our discretion. The fee will be charged to your account, in accordance with the payment information submitted by you as part of your acquisition of our services. You further agree that in the event we determine that you have deliberately or recklessly engaged in SPAM activity we may share information regarding your activities, including but not limited to your identity, with the various anti-SPAM organizations and/or blacklists.
We take all SPAM issues extremely seriously and will take redress such activity whenever we deem necessary.
10. Additional Acceptable Use Policy for Virtual accounts:
Server Resource Provision. Your use of the server resources shall not endanger the capacity and operation of the shared server.
Acceptable use limits: Any shared/reseller account may use no more resources than outlined below:
Shared Accounts
| Resource Type | Any Shared / Single Reseller cPanel Account | Stellar Plus / Ultimate | Stellar Business / Business SSD |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Limit, % | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Physical Memory Limit, GB | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| maxEntryProc limit, N | 20 | 30 | 40 |
| IO, MB/s | 50 | 50 | 50 |
We may allow any shared account to burst up to*
| CPU Limit, % | 200 | 200 | 400 |
*The burst allowance is considered an exception to the acceptable use allowance and shall be permitted solely to stabilize the operation of the website during peak intervals. Any user whose account/server employs the higher burstable resources on a consistent basis shall agree to upgrade it to a package with higher resource availability.
The decision to upgrade shall rest solely with Namecheap and shall be made in its reasonable discretion.
CPU burst. You are allowed to use CPU burst for a limited period of time.
CPU burst limitations are the following:
| Plan | Soft burst, CPU % | Soft burst limit, minutes | Hard burst, CPU % | Hard burst limit, minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stellar | 50-75 | 30 | 75-200 | 15 |
| Stellar Plus / Ultimate | 50-100 | 30 | 100-200 | 15 |
| Stellar Business / Business SSD | 100-200 | 30 | 200-400 | 15 |
CPU burst over usage will result in temporary CPU limit restriction for your account, before another CPU burst can be made.
Reseller Accounts (full package capacity)
| Resource Type | Nebula / Level 1 Reseller | Galaxy Expert / Level 2 Reseller | Universe Pro / Level 3 Reseller | Level 4 Reseller |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Limit, % | 800 | 1600 | 2400 | 3200 |
| Physical Memory Limit, GB | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 |
| maxEntryProc limit, N | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 |
| IO, MB/s | 2048 | 4096 | 6144 | 8192 |
For all account packages:
- No script may use 25% or more of system resources for 60 seconds or longer;
- Running stand-alone, unattached server side processes/daemons is strictly prohibited
- Running any type of web spider / indexer (Google Cash / Ad Spy) is strictly prohibited
- Running any bit-torrent / P2P application is strictly prohibited
- Running cron scripts with intervals of less than 5 minutes, or setting up more than 5 simultaneous cron jobs is strictly prohibited
- Running of public file exchange services is strictly prohibited
Namecheap staff may use the following tools at our discretion to identify use of system resources:
- Conventional UNIX system tools, like 'ps', 'top', 'iostat' etc
- MySQL/PostgreSQL stats reporting features
- cPanel report
- Resource usage alerts from CSF/LFD server security system
Disk Usage Provision. The content on your website must be linked from an HTML or similarly coded web page with all content is freely available to the public. Your website must consist of web pages of a standard design, essentially HTML based text and graphics. Your hosting account should consist mostly of html and php files.
The number of inodes employed by one hosting account on shared and reseller servers must not exceed the following limits:
New Plans
| Shared Servers | Reseller Servers (full package capacity) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stellar | 300.000 | Nebula | 600.000 |
| Stellar Plus | 300.000 | Galaxy Expert | 900.000 |
| Stellar Business | 600.000 | Universe Pro | 1200.000 |
Old Plans
| Shared Servers | Reseller Servers (full package capacity) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | 300.000 | Level 1 | 600.000 |
| Professional | 300.000 | Level 2 | 900.000 |
| Ultimate | 300.000 | Level 3 | 1200.000 |
| Business SSD | 600.000 | Level 4 | 1500.000 |
Downloadable files, media, databases must comply with the following limitations:
- A maximum of 10GB of a shared hosting account can be allocated to music, video or other multimedia files including but not limited to .aac, .avi, .mp3, .mp4, .mpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif files;
- A maximum of 10GB of a shared hosting account can be allocated to any archive and disk image files containing the complete contents and structure of a data storage medium;
- A maximum of 10GB of a shared hosting account can be allocated to databases and database dumps including but not limited to .sql files;
- A maximum of 10GB of a shared hosting account can be allocated to Executable files and all other files which are the result of compiling a program.
- As a part of disk usage optimization, error_log files on our Shared and Reseller servers are size-limited to 10MB per file and 1000 rows with the latest logs.
Any user whose account/server employs the higher burstable resources on a consistent basis shall agree to upgrade it to a package with higher resource availability.
Under its sole discretion, Namecheap reserves the right to determine any kind of unfair or inappropriate usage of any content which may result in immediate account suspension or upgrade to a package with higher resource availability. The decision to upgrade shall rest solely with Namecheap and shall be made in its reasonable discretion.
Backup Limitations. For our Stellar Business customers, we offer unlimited backup storage space with the AutoBackup tool. However, for our Stellar Plus customers who use the AutoBackup tool, if you reach the 25 GB backup storage limit, the backup will not be created until you remove other files. Any Shared Hosting account that uses more than 25 GB of disk space or contains more than 200,000 inodes will be removed from our weekly system backup. Any user whose hosting account is using more than 25 GB of disk space or contains more than 200,000 inodes is solely responsible for maintaining the copy of his/her account.
Softaculous backups are stored for 28 days. Once this period is over, backup will be removed from the server and no copy will exist. Additionally, when using backup rotation option, you are allowed to set 10 copies maximum per each script you have installed using Softaculous. The eleventh copy of your site will replace the earliest backup file, the first one, generated for the website installation.
Use of Email Services. You should use email and other related services in full compliance with the terms below:
To safeguard server performance, the number of emails you send or forward, and the number of email forwarders you use, is limited to:
New Plans
| Shared Servers | Emails (per hour, per domain) | Email forwarder | Reseller Servers | Emails (per hour, per domain) | Email forwarder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stellar | 50 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Nebula | 50 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
| Stellar Plus | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Galaxy Expert | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
| Stellar Business | 10000 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Universe Pro | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
Old Plans
| Shared Servers | Emails (per hour, per domain) | Email forwarder | Reseller Servers | Emails (per hour, per domain) | Email forwarder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Level 1 | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
| Professional | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Level 2 | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
| Ultimate | 500 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Level 3 | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
| Business SSD | 1000 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 | Level 4 | 200 | Per mailbox: 20 Per domain: 200 |
- For Shared Hosting/Single Reseller cPanel accounts, email storage shall not exceed the 10GB limit.
- For IMAP/POP3 mailboxes, You may perform up to 100 email checks per hour.
- For POP3, You may perform up to 10 concurrent connections to email system per IP address on Shared and Reseller servers, and up to 20 concurrent connections to email system per IP address on Business and Email servers.
- For IMAP, You may perform up to 30 concurrent connections to email system per IP address on Shared, Reseller, Business and Email servers.
- For SMTP, You may perform up to 100 concurrent connections to email system on Shared, Reseller, Business and Email servers. This limit applies to the whole server.
Namecheap may, at its sole discretion, limit the volume of email messages You can deliver through our services. Namecheap may limit email volume by queuing Your email messages internally, or by temporarily rejecting requests to send email through our services. Namecheap may block any message You attempt to submit using our services, for any reason whatsoever, with or without notifying You of such blocking. Under no circumstances will Namecheap be liable to You or any other party for any indirect, special, economic or consequential damages (including without limitation lost profits) arising out of email blocking or queuing.
Upgrade to VPS. Each Virtual hosting account can be upgraded to a VPS (Virtual Private Server). The upgrade is performed by Namecheap after You have paid the first month fee. The fee depends on the VPS type chosen by You and is non- refundable. Prorate amount for unused time of the shared hosting account will not be refunded, it will be added to Your account balance in the event of upgrade to VPS. Once the account is transferred to the VPS the Virtual hosting account is terminated and the new VPS account use is governed by the paragraph 11 of this Agreement accordingly.
IPv4 Address Usage Policy. Due to the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space we actively conserve IP address space by limiting the IP addresses each web hosting account can use.
Shared hosting accounts may each use only 1 IP address.
Reseller hosting accounts may use up to 4 IP addresses. The number of IPs that are included and the account may use up to are indicated in the plan specification.
The IP address limit is a per account, not a per customer basis. Customers may hold multiple accounts to get access to additional IP addresses. We strongly urge customers to only use IP addresses for essential use and we do require justification for usage.
11. Additional Acceptable Use Policy for VPS accounts:
- Use of Traffic (Bandwidth).
- Your account monthly traffic is limited in accordance with the VPS Type. Additional Traffic can be ordered at $10.00 per 100 GB rate. The additional bandwidth is paid and applied on a monthly basis. The fee is non-refundable. If the monthly traffic limit is reached before the end of the month Your account will be suspended until the beginning of the next month.
- Disc Space Use.
- Your account disc space is limited in accordance with the VPS Type. Up to 4 GB from the disc space is allocated to the VPS system files and this space cannot be used for storing Your content.
- Additional Services.
- The initial and renewal fees for each VPS include the number of IPs in accordance with VPS type. Additional IPs can be added to a VPS. In such a case Namecheap will charge the appropriate fee for the dedicated IP. The fee is applied and should be paid on a per month basis. The fee is non-refundable.
- You can order Additional RAM as extra features to Your VPS account(s). Namecheap will charge the appropriate fee for the additional RAM, depending on the amount of RAM ordered. The fee is applied and paid on a monthly basis. The fee is non-refundable. Renewal fee is due for the Additional RAM each month after the initial order, until the upgrade or the VPS account itself is cancelled. You are solely responsible to make the renewal payments in a timely manner. In case no renewal payment is received, Namecheap will remove the additional RAM or will suspend the whole VPS account until receiving additional RAM renewal payment.
- Additional Limitations.
- Please note that our services are configured with built-in service limitations designed to prevent invasive activities, including but not limited to denial of service attacks and port scans. If triggered, these limitations may result in an enforced service interruption. In no event shall Namecheap be liable to You for any damages resulting from or related to such interruption.
12. Storage and Security.
At all times, You shall bear full risk of loss and damage to Your server and all of Your server content. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password and account information. You acknowledge and agree that You are solely responsible for all acts, omissions and use under and charges incurred with Your account or password or in connection with the server or any of Your server content displayed, linked, transmitted through or stored on the server. You shall be solely responsible for undertaking measures to: (i) prevent any loss or damage to Your server content; (ii) maintain independent archival and backup copies of Your server content; (iii) ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your server content transmitted through or stored on Namecheap servers; and (iv) ensure the confidentiality of Your password. Namecheap services are not intended to be used for data backup or archiving purposes. Using an account as an online storage space for archiving electronic files is prohibited and will result in termination of hosting services without prior notice. We reserve the right to delete Your archives if they affect Our overall server performance and Namecheap shall have no liability to You or any other person for loss, damage or destruction of any of Your content. The services offered by Namecheap are not intended to provide a PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant environment and therefore should not be utilized as such without further compliance activity. Namecheap shall have no liability to You or any other person for Your use of Namecheap products and/or services in violation of these terms.
13. Transfer of Content.
In the event You terminate this Agreement or Your use of Namecheap products and/or services, then moving Your server content off of the Namecheap servers is Your responsibility. Namecheap will not transfer or FTP Your server content to another provider. In the event Your use of Namecheap products and/or services is terminated, Namecheap will not transfer or manage Your services or Your content.
14. Third-Party Software.
Namecheap provides some third-party software to You for easier account management including, but is not limited to cPanel, Softaculous, etc. Such software is provided on an as is as available basis. We do not guarantee that any specific results can be obtained by using such software. Namecheap does not take responsibility for any faults in such software functioning.
You can add and use third-party software on Your account only if it is compatible with Our servers and is approved by Namecheap. Your use of any third party software is at Your own risk. Namecheap cannot be responsible for any third party software performance and provides no guarantees that its use will result in any particular outcome or result. Namecheap will have no liability or responsibility for any damage, loss of data, loss of use or other loss occurring in connection with Your use of third party software or products.
You are solely responsible for any license and other fees required by the software providers, for using any third-party software installed on Your account apart from the initial account setup.
15. Headings.
The section headings appearing in this Agreement are inserted only as a matter of convenience and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section or in any way affect such section.